O’Reilly’s ambush reporter gets bounced from de Blasio presser. Watch.
“At first, I questioned my assumption that black people in America generally don’t go off into the forest to pitch a tent and cook beans over a fire. I am an urban negro, a man of the cities, but what of blacks in rural areas or blacks with high concentrations of white friends?”
Brandon Harris looks straight at the unbearable whiteness of camping.
I’m fascinated by the budding cultural politics of shirts, as we’re seeing it play out over the last few days in professional sports. As you’ve no doubt seen, a growing number of African-American professional athletes have either worn the Garner-related “I Can’t Breathe” shirt or in the case of the St Louis Rams and others the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” gesture tied to the death of Michael Brown.
Cromnibus (yes, they’re still calling it that) passes in a 219-206 vote in the House.
House GOP sets vote just three hours before shutdown on a long-shot spending bill.
We’re less than four hours away from a government shutdown, and it seems that there is no plan to stop that from happening. Both sides seem to say that there’s no way a shutdown will actually take place, but there’s still no word from Republican House leadership about what, if anything, the House will vote on thus far.
The only people who appear to have a plan are Steve King and Michele Bachmann.
Here’s the latest: As the prospect of a government shutdown looms, King and Bachmann propose a titanic anti-immigration confrontation to fix things.
We’ve been reporting for years on the Creationist theme park which the State of Kentucky was planning to fund through tax breaks. But now it seems like the funding deal is falling through because the theme park operators’ demand to be able to discriminate in who got to work on Noah’s ark.
Fascinating interview with the guy who literally taught the CIA how to torture.
One of the most interesting nuggets is James Mitchell’s point on the efficacy of torture and whether it yielded intelligence.
Fascinating breakdown in the effort to avoid a government shutdown. And in a new twist it’s Obama and Reid and Boehner trying to force the current bill through. Earlier I noted what appears to be a big (though not much discussed) shift in national Democrats stance toward Wall Street. Here I think there’s another shift – though a tactical one rather than one of basic positions. Unlike in the past, House Democrats aren’t necessarily there to give Boehner the votes he needs when he can’t bring his right wingers to heel.